If you are a visitor in Canada and applied for work / study permit and then got refused, your visitor status is not affected. Upon receiving notice of the work permit or study permit refusal, you must submit a separate application to extend your temporary resident status as a visitor before the expiry date of your temporary resident status, if you wish to remain in Canada.

If your status at the time of the work permit or study permit refusal was valid due to the application of subsection R183(6) (means implied status), then you will have to apply for a restoration of visitor status if you do not wish to leave Canada.

Ref: subsection R183(6)

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